Curled from Daily Sun reports
A police special task force, at the weekend, recovered bullet-ridden bodies of three missing Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) engineers, four weeks after they were attacked by oil pipeline vandals in Arepo village, Ogun State. The slain NNPC officials were identified as a deputy manager in charge of Pipelines Right of Way (PROW) and two other engineers deployed to effect repairs on a vandalised pipeline in Arepo on
September 5.
According to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Friday Ibadin, who heads the Inspector-General of Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism, officers who were using speedboats and helicopters to comb the creeks near Arepo dug up the bodies in two shallow graves across a river. Ibadin said: “We found, in a decomposing state, bullet-ridden bodies of the three victims. We learnt that the body of the local security guard employed by NNPC, Taye a.k.a Dead Man, was cut into pieces and disposed off.”
Authorities in NNPC had blamed the ongoing fuel shortage in some parts of the country on the shutdown of the damaged System 2B pipeline, at Arepo, which carries one third of the nation’s daily fuel needs. The acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Mr. Fidel Pepple, had said that the major pipeline was evacuating about nine to 11 million litres of fuel from Lagos to Ibadan, Ilorin and the North.
Pepple said that a team of engineers and technicians of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC), a subsidiary of NNPC, who had been dispatched to the ruptured products pipeline site, had successfully put out the fire by ensuring a complete cut-off of product supply to the pipeline from the Atlas Cove depot, and the team was on the verge of gaining access to the damaged point to commence proper assessment of the scope of work when the vandals who had laid ambush opened fire from a distance, killing the three staffers and injuring several others.
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